This evening (after Shabas in the nine days), I recited havdala over a cup of beer, as every year. I knew it was beer, but, by force of habit, recited "hagafen" (the wine benediction) over it during ...

There is a rule that if you are eating multiple items that are in the same blessing category (e.g. shehakol) then you only say one blessing and have in mind the other items.
Does this inclusion have ...

I have always been confused about l'chaims (toasts). At what point does one make the blessing on the drink? Which part--the "l'chaim" or the blessing--immediately precedes taking a sip?
Usually when ...

Assuming that there is an even amount of "varnishkes" (noodles) and kasha, do you make 2 brachot - mezonot on the varnishkes and adamah on the kasha? (If so, which should you say first?)
Or is this ...

I want to know if anyone knows or anyone can help me determine if:
ka-kosher as presented at ka-kosher.com is a legit (orthodox) kosher certification.
I noticed the symbol on a bag of frozen organic ...

It has come to my attention (from a local Rabbi) that one is required to say a brocho on each and every bit of food he/she eats, unless he/she was thinking about that particular food at the time of ...

If a fish is considered shechted when it is taken out of the water, what is the status of that fish when it is placed back in the water and it swims away? If it was dead, surely it cannot come back ...

I live in an apartment with roommates, I'm trying to determine who is stealing my food. I use the word stealing because each of us had have our own separate and color-coded cabinets, and I also label ...

What bracha does one make on wheat gluten, a.k.a. Seitan? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seitan
I'm aware of this opinion saying it's Shehakol
http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=113
I'm curious though if ...

Let's say you have a dish in front of you but you're not certain what its ingredients are. You ask a Gentile who is familiar, and he says, "I've seen something like this before and it's usually made ...

This question comes from someone who's interested in preparing and selling food items with strawberries as a main ingredient. In a scenario where many strawberries are being used at once, would each ...

There's a tricky halacha with brachos that I couldn't figure out.
It goes something like this: If you make a bracha on one food item without having others in mind, if more of the food item remains in ...

Maseches Chullin 27b that fish do not need shechita but they do need asifa (gathering). Does that mean that it is assur to eat a fish underwater (it's dead -to exclude bal tishaktzu problem) without ...

I've talked to a few people, and they try to "limit" the consumption of processed foods on passover, although when they "need to", as with grape juice and wine etc, they will buy it from the store. ...

If you eat a kezayis of bread you bentch.
If you eat a seduah of pas haba bikisnin you also bentch.
If you ate slightly shy of a kezayis of bread and have only mezonos available, can you fill up the ...

I have a bottle of The Spirit of Jaffa Arak (ערק הניחוחות של יפו) with a regular circle-K hechsher as well as hashgachat-badatz-yerushalayim.
Is there any reason this shouldn't be kosher for passover ...

According to the Sephardic tradition that egg matzah can be permissible on Passover (see e.g. http://etzion.org.il/vbm/english/archive/moadim70/02-70moed.htm), is there any reason why they would not ...

When I was younger (yes, that did happen to me - ONCE :-) the Rav from the shul I attended would include a suggestion whenever there was a Shabbat where we use 3 Sifrei Torah, such as will occur this ...

Suppose someone is eating a fruit which requires a bracha rishona of ha'etz, but the person accidentally makes a ha'adama. Since ha'adama is the more general bracha, it covers his fruit and he does ...

Are Starburst Fruit Chews kosher? This website below clearly has an OU on the right side. However, Gelatin appears on the ingredient list, and the oukosher.org website doesn't have any reference to ...

Some time ago I listened to a Rabbi talking on the radio about the meaning of food left over after a meal. Unfortunately I was not paying attention.
I then saw a question that asked what the meaning ...

i understand that halal can not be trusted for meat, but what about items that are certified halal and certified vegetarian? There are many vegetarian curry pastes and other spice pastes that can be ...

It happens to everyone sometimes. You'll be eating a sandwich (for example), bentch, and then find some food stuck in your mouth.
What should be done with this food?
Is it permissible to swallow it? ...

Is it permissible to eat cereal in cold milk on Shabbos? I am aware that oats and finely ground baby food is permissible if done in a certain way. I am referring to chunky cereals such as corn flakes ...

What is the explanation of the talmudic dictum (Sanhedrin 62b, Kreisos 19b) that one who inadvertently sins in the areas of forbidden foods or sexual relations (e.g. reaches for kosher food, misses it ...

This is sort of the counter question to Mezonos bread. At what point does a grain based admixture transition between bread and non bread?
To clarify:
The general position of Sephardic Jewry is that ...

The 7 species of Israel are used to praise the land.
Wine gets a unique bracha rishonah and acharonah. Grains within the 7 species and within the 5 species of grains also get their own bracha rishona ...

Based on the verse “Lo tochlu al hadam,” in Vayikra, we learn that one should not eat before praying in the morning.
There is also the concept of Oneg Shabbat. Which basically means that you should ...